Hardcover. UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. American Comics Group. June/July 1950 - January 1951 Issues 11-15. Foreword by Paul Di Filippo.
Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 322 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. This book examines the issue of racial stereotyping and with the issue of skin color as seen by such radio show broadcasts as Amos 'N' Andy. Some Blacks did not like the show when released, while others saw it as a humane portrayal of African-American Life. Overall, the show became the most popular radio show of all time. Later, it was touted by the Civil Rights Movement as offensive and racist.
Hardcover. NY, Universe, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The face of television was changed forever in 1971 with the premiere of All in the Family. The working-class Bunker family of Queens, New York--lovable bigot Archie (Carroll O'Connor), his long-suffering "dingbat" wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), their liberal daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers), and son-in-law Mike "Meathead" Stivic (Rob Reiner)--instantly became, and half a century later still are, four of the most iconic characters in television.In All in the Family: The Show that Changed Television, Norman Lear shares his take on fifty essential episodes that exemplify why the show remains as funny and relevant as ever. Its boundary-pushing approach to hot-button topics is examined with commentary from co-stars O' Connor, Stapleton, Reiner, and Struthers, as well as writers, directors, and guest stars from the show. With previously unseen notes from Lear, script pages, production designs, and a foreword by super-fan Jimmy Kimmel, this book is the ultimate companion to the seminal series and a must for fans of Lear's shows and television comedy. "Norman Lear," said New Yorker critic Michael Arlen, "has a feel for what people want to see before they know they want to see it." All in the Family, like all of the Lear shows that followed, was a turning point in television's handling of taboo subjects such as race relations, feminism, homosexuality, war, religion, gun control, social inequity, and other controversial subjects, all of which remain in the news today.
Hardcover. NY, Meredith Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Ed Sullivan's variety show was an American institution, running Sunday nights for twenty-three years, from the dawn of television in 1948 until 1971. Even relatively young readers have probably seen clips of Sullivan introducing Elvis Presley, the Beatles, or saying, "We've got a really big shew." "Always on Sunday" gives us a broad view of Sullivan, who turns out much more complex than I would have guessed. Some stories you might have heard for years are debunked - not all of Elvis' appearance were from the waist up for example. Although the book focuses on the period from the debut of "The Toast of the Town" (the original name of the show) until the late-60s, when the book was originally published, it gives a decent overview of his life prior to the show and insight into what made Sullivan tick. For example, he was an early supporter of equal rights and booked appearances by stars regardless of race when that was uncommon. Clean copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles/NY, LCA/Warner Bros., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A promotional folder issued by Warner Brothers Studio to advertise their animated TV show to potential licensees and retailers. Includes marketing plans, color character sketches, etc., on separate sheets, all laid-in.
Softcover. Las Vegas NV, Pioneer Books , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Softcover, pictorial wraps,145 pages, b&w illustrations. Shows and describes toys, cards, and collectibles associated with the Batman television series, and shares interviews with the main cast members. Clean, bright copy but has a smoke odor.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Goldenson was an unsung giant of the entertainment industry. He learned from Zukor and Balaban at Paramount, interacted with Sarnoff and Paley, and built a great company against great odds and all-powerful competition. That took great creativity. Any leader could learn a great deal from this man. The book is honest, humble, and very well-written. It is worth the price alone for his insights into the other moguls.
Softcover. NY, Black Spring Press, rep wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new. 148 pages. Originally conceived in part as a companion piece to CITIZEN KANE, THE BIG BRASS RING--an original screenplay by Orson Welles, written three years before his death--reveals Welles's brilliance as a writer
Hardcover. Lanham MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke's name, they most certainly recognize his face. Dating back to the 1970s, Duke has appeared in a number of popular films, including Car Wash, American Gigolo, Commando, Predator, and X-Men: The Last Stand. Fewer still might be aware of Duke's extraordinary accomplishments off-screen--as a talented director, producer, entrepreneur, and humanitarian. Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and behind the Camera is the memoir of a Hollywood original. In an industry that rarely embraces artists of color, Duke first achieved success as an actor then turned to directing. After helming episodes of ratings giants Dallas, Falcon Crest, Hill Street Blues, and Miami Vice, Duke progressed to feature films like A Rage in Harlem, Deep Cover, Hoodlum, and Sister Act 2. In this candid autobiography, Duke recalls the loving but stern presence of his mother and father, acting mentors like Olympia Dukakis, and the pitfalls that nearly derailed his career, notably an addiction to drugs. Along the way, readers will encounter familiar names like Danny Glover, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Whoopi Goldberg.
Hardcover. W. Palm Beach FL, Streamline Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 463 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Radio has just celebrated its 75th anniversary and it's as vital and varied as ever. Rhoads, a zealous radio historian and archivist, has captured radio's exuberance and fluency in this marvelous collection of more than 900 photographs, many of which have never before been published. This collection of portraits, both posed and candid, of radio personalities is a veritable radio hall of fame, showcasing everyone from Jack Benny to Howard Stern. Rhoads begins with photographs chronicling the rise of the pioneering Pittsburgh station, KDKA, the first to achieve continuous broadcasting, then keeps pace with radio's rapid growth, offering rare documentation of every type of on-air performer, from men of the cloth delivering the first on-air services to vaudevillians, conductors, sportscasters, and dramatists, many of whom went on to achieve fame in Hollywood. Styles change, but the magic continues as radio continues to evolve in conjunction with its competitor, television. On-air performers gave way to disc jockeys and talk show hosts, but talents such as Garrison Keillor and various NPR contributors have helped keep imaginative radio alive and well.
Hardcover. NY, PublicAffairs, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary television star tells the backstage stories of the classic comedy of Your Show of Shows, Caesar's Hour , and other landmark programs. It is no exaggeration to say that without Sid Caesar, comedy in America would have been a lot less funny. He was the star and guiding force behind Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour , two of the most innovative programs in the Golden Age of Television, and the writers and stars of those shows went on to create the plays, movies, and sitcoms that we now think of as classic American comedy. So many of our greatest comedy writers - Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen -were part of Sid Caesar's creative troupe. Sid was a master not only of comedic performance, but also of developing characters that the audience could relate to, finding the humor in ordinary situations rather than through vaudeville-type gags. His was a comedy truly drawn from the human condition. Caesar's Hours is Sid Caesar 's artistic autobiography, his account of how these great routines were fashioned and performed, and the interactions that gave birth to them. He takes us inside the famed writers' room, the rehearsal studios, and onto the stage itself, where some of the funniest moments in television history came to life. To read his book is to learn why his intelligent and sensitive brand of humor resonates so much with us, even half a century later. Remainder line to bottom edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Collects February to December 1951, Issuea 1-6.
Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st , 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1,100 pages. Large, heavy hardcover. Black & white diagrams and illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Fort Lee NJ, Barricade Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ALLEN on the title page. An autobiography covering Allen's fifty years in radio and T.V. Allen was the creator and first host of the Tonight Show. B&w illust., 308 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2009-10-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Photos in color and b&w. SIGNED BY MORGAN on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 594 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear. Features behind the scenes gossip & interviews with a wide variety of stars, writers & guests, too numerous to detail here. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press,, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 243 pages, b&w photos. In a bright dust jacket. A much needed biography of the father of quality, live theatrical productions for television in the "golden age of television" in the 1950s is finally here. Fred Coe won multiple awards during his career, including the Emmy and Tony awards, among many others.
Softcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. Color throughout. Max Headroom, as you may remember, is the hipper alter ego of Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) and his adventures in the future. Carter is a top notch tv reporter, the lovely Theora Ward, the controller, is played by the lovely Amanda Pays. The show gives you a dark smoky view of the future - and this book, the starting movie of the series, replicates that look It has the script from the movie, as well as action shots. Clean, bright copy.
NY, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations. 442 pages. The story of the popular Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The legendary Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced the gleeful wonder and cumulative joy that transcended the crude drawings and occasionally muddy sound. Jay Ward was the magnificent visionary, the outrageous showman, while Bill Scott was the genial, brilliant head writer, coproducer, and all-purpose creative whirlwind. With exclusive interviews, original scripts, artwork, story notes, letters and memos, Keith Scott has written the definitive history of Jay Ward Productions.
1970, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of couple watching TV in a house shaped like a television. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1972, Book: Very Good, Color art by Martin of a TV camera aimed at sporting event below (Olympics). 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1976, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon by Saxon of broadcast control room televising political news. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Paperback. Norfolk, Virginia, The Donning Company, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. Oversized, cover has light wear to corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. A nice copy. Provides plot summaries for more than eighty episodes of a Japanese animated science fiction series and shares drawings and profiles of the main characters.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday/Dolphin, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. Collects articles, interviews, photos on The- Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-Players: Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Bill Murray and some of the guests: Candice Bergen, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin, more. Photos by Edie Baskin. Filled with bios and photos in color and b & w of the early days of Saturday Night Live. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Wilmington DE, Scholarly Resources Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The transcripts of Reagan.s five-minute broadcasts he made starting April 3rd, 1982. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, James Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 443 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 460 pages, b&w illustrations. In Same Time, Same Station, historian James L. Baughman takes readers behind the scenes of early broadcasting, examining corporate machinations that determined the future of television. Split into two camps-those who thought TV could meet and possibly raise the expectations of wealthier, better-educated post-war consumers and those who believed success meant mimicking the products of movie houses and radio-decision makers fought a battle of ideas that peaked in the 1950s, just as TV became a central facet of daily life for most Americans.Baughman's engagingly written account of the brief but contentious debate shows how the inner workings and outward actions of the major networks, advertisers, producers, writers, and entertainers ultimately made TV the primary forum for entertainment and information. The tale of television's founding years reveals a series of decisions that favored commercial success over cultural aspiration.
Softcover. NY, Avon Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wrappers, 124 pages. Black/white photos and illustrations. Reproductions of skit scripts and other ephemera from the early years of the TV show. Small notation on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap & Co. , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Wanderer Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages. Hardcover. Features full color pop-ups on each page. All pop-ups are intact with light wear. Minor rubbing to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 412 pages illustrated in color and b&w. In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content available when and how viewers want it. With this phenomenon now a common cultural theme, a writer of David Thomson's stature delivering a critical history, or "biography" of the six-decade television era, will be a significant event which could not be more timely. With Television, the critic and film historian who wrote what Sight and Sound's readers called "the most important film book of the last 50 years" has finally turned his unique powers of observation to the medium that has swallowed film whole. Over twenty-two thematically organized chapters, Thomson brings his provocatively insightful and unique voice to the life of what was television. David Thomson surveying a Boschian landscape, illuminated by that singular glow-always "on"-and peopled by everyone from Donna Reed to Dennis Potter, will be the first complete history of the defining medium of our time. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Carlton Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" is one of the better "Supermarionation" series that came from the hands of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, known by Americans as well as those in the UK for their many classic puppet series "Supercar", "Fireball XL5", "Stingray", and especially "Thunderbirds"- and their classic live action "UFO" and "Space Precinct".The Captain Scarlet series also was shown in the USA, but in a limited market originally and with wider exposure via compilation films on Showtime and HBO and later on SciFi Channel. Captain Scarlet marked one of the first Supermarionation series to have a truly dark and serious storyline, with an invisible alien race, the Mysterons, seeking revenge for an attack made in error on their cities on Mars. The Mysterons then declared war on Earth. Chris Bentley presents a complete production history and guide to all 32 episodes of the Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons series, plus information about voice artists, merchandising and spin-offs. PLEASE NOTE: the book is clean and tight, but was once owned by a smoker and has a smoke odor.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly sunned dust jacket. Covers 11 seasons and 251 episodes of Korean War TV comedy. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w, 240 pages. Introduction by Larry Gelbart. Light paper clip mark to front endpapers, otherwise clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 318 pages, A veteran producer provides an inside view of television, combining anecdotal discussions of agents, performers, and sponsors with detailed information on network organization and business activities. A good overview of the TV broadcasting business in the 1970s. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Rutledge/Scribners, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, dust jacket with mild fading to spine. Over 260 illustrations (64 in color) are accompanied by details of your favorite NBC television and radio stars: Groucho Marx, Liza Minelli, Jimmy Durante, Johnny Carson, George Burns, and many more. Foreword by Bob Hope. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright but edgeworn dust jacket. In this, his illustrated life, Groucho Marx shares the glories of the most beloved and durable career in show business, offers glimpses of his private life, and tells never-before-published anecdotes about the great people of his time. Groucho's inimitable words complement the more than 700 photographs, line drawings, posters and letters that have been culled from the massive Groucho Marx collection. 384 pages, index. Light spotting to rear cover, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Doubleday, Revised Ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yelow pictorial wrappers, 422 pages illustrated in b&w. Everything you ever could hope to know about 'I Love Lucy'. Behind-the-scenes look at the making of the show. Cast listings, ratings and original air dates. Dialogue and interviews with the stars, writer, directors, producers and more. Mold shelf wear, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 470 pages. On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones. As TV critics for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, New Jersey's The Star-Ledger, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon. Sepinwall and Seitz have reunited to produce The Sopranos Sessions, a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode. Featuring a series of new long-form interviews with series creator David Chase, as well as selections from the authors' archival writing on the series, The Sopranos Sessions explores the show's artistry, themes, and legacy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages. The official companion book to the feature-length documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, featuring previously unpublished photographs from the first season of Sesame Street and interviews with cast and crew. The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street expands on the film's exploration of the origins and legacy of Sesame Street with exclusive interviews and previously unpublished photographs from the first season of the globally beloved children's series. Author and filmmaker Trevor Crafts, who was given unprecedented access to archival footage and photography, presents more than 150 of photographer David Attie's behind-the-scenes images of Jim Henson, Will Lee, Loretta Long, Bob McGrath, Frank Oz, Matt Robinson, Caroll Spinney, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, and dozens of other pioneering puppeteers, animators, actors, and Sesame Street Muppets. Crafts uses Attie's remarkable photos and additional interviews from the film to dive deeper into the story of how show creator Joan Ganz Cooney, along with Sesame Workshop cofounder Lloyd Morrisett, director Jon Stone, and Muppet creator Jim Henson, took the values and goals of the civil rights movement and revolutionized children's television. Clean, no dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 293 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of television reviews and criticism that appeared in The New Yorker during the mid-70s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland," itself inspired by Freud's recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form, and the creative energy of artists from Otto Messmer and Max Fleischer to Walt Disney and Warner Bros.' Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid Mitenbuler skillfully relates, were as colorful and subversive as their creations-from Felix the Cat to Bugs Bunny to feature films such as Fantasia-which became an integral part and reflection of American culture over the next five decades. Pre-television, animated cartoons were aimed squarely at adults; comic preludes to movies, they were often "little hand grenades of social and political satire." Early Betty Boop cartoons included nudity; Popeye stories contained sly references to the injustices of unchecked capitalism. "During its first half-century," Mitenbuler writes, "animation was an important part of the culture wars about free speech, censorship, the appropriate boundaries of humor, and the influence of art and media on society." During WWII it also played a significant role in propaganda. The Golden Age of animation ended with the advent of television, when cartoons were sanitized to appeal to children and help advertisers sell sugary breakfast cereals.
Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 509 pages, color photos. Woke Up This Morning is the definitive behind-the-scenes history of the groundbreaking HBO series that became a worldwide cultural phenomenon, ushered in a new Golden Age of Television, and to this day continues to be one of the most binged shows of all time. Michael and Steve tell all the incredible stories that The Sopranos fans have been waiting to hear for over twenty years. The book covers the entire history of The Sopranos series from the original concept pitch and casting to the infamous cut to black. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 509 pages, color photos. Woke Up This Morning is the definitive behind-the-scenes history of the groundbreaking HBO series that became a worldwide cultural phenomenon, ushered in a new Golden Age of Television, and to this day continues to be one of the most binged shows of all time. Michael and Steve tell all the incredible stories that The Sopranos fans have been waiting to hear for over twenty years. The book covers the entire history of The Sopranos series from the original concept pitch and casting to the infamous cut to black. Clean copy.